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Automated metal lathe bringing chess-men to life

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DeepGreene
Oct 18, 2009
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The Kenilworth Chess Club blog has some links to YouTube vids of robotic, automated metal lathes showing their stuff by turning chess pieces.  Pretty neat to watch, actually.

http://tinyurl.com/yg7rbpy

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son_of_pushwood
Oct 19, 2009
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#2

ooooo- is there one of the knight?

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DeepGreene
Oct 19, 2009
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Oooh, not sure.  So far, I watched the Rook one only.  (I'm not 'up' on metal-work, but have a hard time imagining how you could complete a Knight using only a lathe.)

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Baseballfan
Oct 19, 2009
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#4

It's not on a lathe, but one of the videos he links to does show a knight being done on a CNC Mill.

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kco
Oct 19, 2009
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#5

CNC Mill, what is that ?

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Tuirgin
Oct 21, 2009
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Very cool stuff. At one time I was using 3D engraver/router tables and a 3D CNC router. Not for anything as cool as this, though. My buddy's job was to do the design work and I'd translate it into the setup on the CNC router.